debian 99 waiting for headers

Update 99% waiting for headers

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: February 23, 2010
Recently it has started taking ages to look for new updates, it does the first 99% very quickly, but get stuck at 99% - waiting for headers, for about 3 minutes. It never used to take so long, is there something i can do?
At the end it tells me this:
Get: 3 http://dl.google.com stable Release [2,540B]
Get: 4 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [871B]
Fetched 3,601B in 2min 0s (30B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
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Debian Grub 1.99 alters BIOS (confirmed after formatting hard disk)

location: linux.com - date: September 10, 2013
Hi, I am a long time Windows user and recently try this Debian Wheezy OS. Burn Debian ISO in Windows environment and then select DVD ROM drive to boot first in BIOS.
The first installation of Debian (GNOME) was with multi-boot option that allows booting from hard disk and DVD drive. I then realise my BIOS was altered when the ACER Phoenix BIOS F2 button fails to response but there is the F12 button to select a unique multi-boot environment. I was then able to boot to FreeDOS to install a DOS environment which I then use to load a CD containing DOS BIOS which I then use to flash the ACER provided BIOS. My ACER Phoenix BIOS was restored. I still don't think Debian OS installation can actually alter my BIOS.
The second installallation of Debian (KDE) was only with hard disk booting option. I use ReFIND, hoping to boot to CentOS DVD but the Anaconda boot to command line interface and I don't know what to do do initiate the CentOS disc installation. I then use Live GParted to partition and

Debian Grub 1.99 alters BIOS (confirmed after formatting hard disk)

location: linux.com - date: September 10, 2013
Hi, I am a long time Windows user and recently try this Debian Wheezy OS. Burn Debian ISO in Windows environment and then select DVD ROM drive to boot first in BIOS.
The first installation of Debian (GNOME) was with multi-boot option that allows booting from hard disk and DVD drive. I then realise my BIOS was altered when the ACER Phoenix BIOS F2 button fails to response but there is the F12 button to select a unique multi-boot environment. I was then able to boot to FreeDOS to install a DOS environment which I then use to load a CD containing DOS BIOS which I then use to flash the ACER provided BIOS. My ACER Phoenix BIOS was restored. I still don't think Debian OS installation can actually alter my BIOS.
The second installallation of Debian (KDE) was only with hard disk booting option. I use ReFIND, hoping to boot to CentOS DVD but the Anaconda boot to command line interface and I don't know what to do do initiate the CentOS disc installation. I then use Live GParted to partition and

Debian boots to L 99 99 99 99

location: linuxquestions.com - date: May 11, 2007
I recently rebooted my debian 3.1 and got the following L 99 99 99 99. After researching, I tried to use Knoppix (Live CD) to boot and change lilo.conf. When I tried to make changes I get errors about not being able to open the vimrc file. I cannot save the file.
I was able to cd to /dev/sda3 and then chroot. It seems that I can change anything. I am new to Debian and am a little confused.
Does anyone have a guide to fix my lilo.
TIA
Mike

Stuck at 0% [Waiting for Headers] How can I fix this?

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: September 19, 2013
My system was working fine before I installed Pantheon, now after the installation, I can't install any package. I ran these commands:
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:midori/midori-dev
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ricotz/docky
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
and after that, I did:
sudo apt-get remove elementary-desktop
sudo apt-get remove pantheon
now, whenever I try to install any package, I get stuck at stuck at 0% [Waiting for headers] - and when I do sudo apt-get update, I get stuck at 100% [Waiting for headers] - How can I fix this? I would appreciate it if you can help me.

kernel headers 3.x for debian squeeze from source packages

location: linuxquestions.com - date: February 7, 2012
Hi there, we just like to update our debian kernels, our servers are running on 2.6.32, but would like to update them to 3.2.4 .
Is there any way to add kernel headers from and update our running kernel to 3.2.4 without recompilation and just running apt-get , etc ... ?
we're looking for the easiest way to do that, if you can help, it would be great .

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: September 19, 2013
My system was working fine before I installed Pantheon, now after the installation, I can't install any package. I ran these commands:
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:midori/midori-dev
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ricotz/docky
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
and after that, I did:
sudo apt-get remove elementary-desktop
sudo apt-get remove pantheon
now, whenever I try to install any package, I get stuck at stuck at 0% [Waiting for headers] - and when I do sudo apt-get update, I get stuck at 100% [Waiting for headers] - How can I fix this? please help.

aptget hangs at waiting for headers

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: January 25, 2011
For two days I've been trying to update and install packages on a Lucid 64-bit system. It's a fresh install and I've never had any problems with any apt-get commands before in the two years during which I've installed Ubuntu on everything I own. It just hangs at 0% [Waiting for Headers]. I can provide more information if needed.
I suspect his may have something to do with it: (copied from terminal output)
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.43
My sources.list:
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816.1)]/ lucid main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main restricted #Added by software-properties
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid restricted main multiverse universe #Added by